|
|
|
|
|
An international group of chief information officers has developed a program designed to shift higher-education technology leaders from a purely technical role to one with more executive power, putting them side by side with campus decision makers who call the shots.
A recent survey shows even tech-savvy college students require more campus IT support than you might think.
Distance learning, open courseware, eBooks, wikis, and many other innovative technologies have forever affected education by connecting any topic in any discipline to any learner in any place. Drexel University’s Virtual Symposium aptly demonstrated this.
Wayne Brown’s seven years of research has identified a wide swath of campus technology officials eager to become chief information officers someday. They’re just not quite sure how.
More colleges and universities are turning to unified communications as a way to streamline campus communication and save money in unpredictable economic times.
Leo Irakliotis doesn’t just want to develop academics and researchers. The newly appointed dean of Nova Southeastern University’s Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences also wants tech-savvy business people who can talk the talk of the corporate world.
It’s no surprise, really, but it turns out Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates is a strong supporter of the open-courseware movement that has swept through higher education in the last few years.
Grand Rapids Community College students were among the first in the nation to be able to rent their textbooks from their Follett’s campus bookstore, but now the company is expanding the program to colleges across the country, the Grand Rapids Press reports.
Although technically it was published in 2008, “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns,” by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, and Michael Horn, made a huge impression in the past year, and its authors spoke at numerous education conferences in 2009. Their ideas proved quite prophetic later in the year, when a new online-learning movement emerged that is sure to send shock waves throughout higher education.
Personalized newscasts culled from the web and presented by digital avatars; baseball stories written by computers using raw data: Students and professors at Northwestern University are working to make this futuristic vision of news a reality, AFP reports.
